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Robert Looney Caruthers, A Compilation of the Statutes of Tennessee, of a General and Permanent Nature, from the Commencement of the Government to the Present time: With References to Judicial Decisions, in Notes, to Which is Appended a New Collection of Forms Page 100-101; Image 105-106 (1836) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

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  • 1825
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An Act of 1825, § 1. When any sheriff, coroner, or constable, shall know of his own knowledge, or upon the representation of any person, or if he or they, shall have good reason to suspect, any person of being armed with the intention of committing a riot or affray, or the wounding or killing any person, it shall be the duty of all such officers, immediately to arrest all such persons so suspected, and return them before some justice of the peace, whose duty it shall be, upon proof being made, that there was reasonable ground to suspect such person or persons for being armed, with intent to disturb or commit a breach of the peace, to bind such person or persons in a bond with two or more good and sufficient securities, in a sum of not less than two hundred and fifty dollars, and not exceeding two thousand dollars, conditioned for his or their good behavior and peaceable deportment for the term of twelve months thereafter. § 2. If any justice of the peace shall know of his knowledge, or have reasonable cause to suspect, any person or persons of being armed with intent to commit a breach of the peace, it shall be the duty of such justice of the peace, to cause such offender or offenders, to be arrested and immediately brought before him or some other justice for examination, and upon its being satisfactory made to appear, that such person or persons was armed or about to be armed with intent to commit a breach of the peace, such justice shall bind such offender or offenders in bond and security, as specified in the first section of this act. § 3. The bonds by this act required to be given, shall be made payable to the chairman of the county court in which the same shall be executed, and his successors in office, and shall be filed in the office of the clerk of said court; and it shall be the duty of the solicitor for the state, when he shall believe such bond be forfeited, to issue scire facias thereon against such offender and his securities, and the amount collected shall be by the sheriff paid to the county trustee for county purposes. § 4. Any justice of the peace, sheriff, coroner, or constable, when acting under the provisions of this act, shall have power and authority to summon as many persons as they may think proper, to assist in arresting and securing any such offender, and any person so summoned who shall fail or refuse to assist such officer, for the purposes aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars and cost, to be recovered before any justice of the peace, for the use of the county; and it shall be the duty of such officer, when he may have summoned any person to assist as aforesaid, and such person shall fail or refuse to obey such summons, to prosecute such defaulter before some justice of the peace, for the above penalty, and give evidence, of such summons and default. § 5. When any person shall be brought before any justice of the peace as required by the first and second sections of this act, and shall fail or refuse to give the security required, it shall be the duty of such justice, to commit such offender to the nearest sufficient jail for safe keeping, until such security is given, or he shall be discharged by due course of law.